"Crazy Sprite Guy"

I'd still like to see a current picture of your grill. Can you take a close-up shot (and not an old pic that's just zoomed in on the computer) so I
can get a better idea of the surface it appeared in front of. Maybe even take a picture with your back against the grill, facing your home- where any
reflection that may have occured would have likely came from.

The bandwidth quota for this website has been exceeded. The site will be back online within 12 hours.

Sorry to anyone who hasn't seen the pics yet. I guess they will be back up in a bit. Alternatively, you can view them on my Geocities site I have put
them up on, but if everyone is looking at these, they will probably exceed bandwidth again just as fast:

I am also putting together a basic site on both of my sites to try and gather all this info into one place after this thread dies off.

Rasputin, I'll go take some close-ups right now. U2U me with an email, MSN, or AIM that you want me to send the new images through to you, since I
can't put them up on the web right now. Or look in my profile for mine.

Edit: I have taken about 10 new pictures, totaling 8 MB or so in size altogether. A few pictures of the grill close-up, a few from the point-of-view
of the camera on top of the grill, as well as some wide shots of my whole deck. In the new close-ups, I have noticed a lot of grease spots caused by
using the barbeque, etc. But the barbeque wasn't used in October, and it was cleaned before fall, so I think the grease on it is post-sprite-picture.
There is a fairly large spot where the sprite was, but it doesn't look like anything but a circle. The rest of the black surface is also covered with
other such dots, so if one showed up, the rest would have been visible as well. You can judge for yourself when you get the pictures, though.

I dunno how this is going to work if the images are always down because of exceeded bandwidth. Hmm. I'm taking the larger (1 Meg) pictures down from
the previous post, because they are probably drastically causing most of it. You can email me, add me on MSN, or add me on AIM if you want them
(available in my profile). I will be on tonight from 7-9 pm EST for sure to send them out, and off and on through the day probably at some time.

Dang, this doesn't look like anything I've seen. At least you have a picture so you you know that your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. Also,
did you see this just once? And did this appear in the same way on the picture as it did in real life? I have also seen something stange myself and
it's on ATS. www.abovetopsecret.com...
I supose it's possible that there are creatures from another dimension that appear every so often.

Yeah I had read your post earlier Acehawk. Very intriguing. I kind of wish I didn't get a picture. People seem to believe your retelling better than
my images, LOL. This image only happened once so far, and I didn't actually see it until I looked over my pictures on the computer. Except I have
caught orbs on videotape when my friends and I were making a movie. Not orbs that are clearly rain like this. It was inside and the camera was still,
and they appeared and swooped across the screen and disappeared again. Could have been dust particles in the air perhaps, I don't know. But no, never
anything with as definate a shape as this. Sometimes I see them plainly with my eyes though. Like at work yesterday, I was talking to my co-worker
from about 10 feet away, and I clearly saw a ball of light sweep past her.

It was weird that you said your lizard was 2D though, and my entity in the photo also appears to be. How big was it? Like an iguana, or the smaller
like the size of my object in the photo?

I dunno what all these sprites and shadow lizards are, but they seem to be occuring more and more frequently each day :\. I'm a little more relieved
that mine appears to be made of light instead of shadow/darkness, though, after reading about shadow people/beings.

I have purposefully kept them full-size to maintain as much detail as possible. If you have trouble seeing them in this format, you may want to save
them to your computer and look at them with an image viewing program.

now that i have checked this picture i can say that it was not photoshopped!
not saying i kno what it is but it is not fake. it was taken on a Canon Powershot A70 on October 29 2004 and uploaded to his computer with firmware
version 1.0. I'll get back to you when i figure out what it is!

Well I could have told you all those stats :\. Thank you for verifying, though. At least someone knowledgable can vouche for the validity of the
image and that it has not been tampered with. I am interested to hear what your conclusion will be.

Unfortunately, I am going camping this week, so I will be unable to post here from Monday until some time in the afternoon on Wednesday. Maybe I will
capture some images of a Bigfoot. Heh.. that would be way too suspcious. So anyway, if anyone has any further questions, theories, etc after tonight,
I apologize that it will take me two days to respond. Thank you to everyone who has viewed and contributed to this thread to date. When I come back I
will begin looking for similar images/sightings, start to piece all the facts together, and come to some sort of conclusion as to what this thing is,
if it is anything more than simply a glare or reflection. Which, unfortunately, it probably isn't.

I thought the sprite might be a raindrop that had fallen directly on the camera lens, but the posts along the left hand side of the deck display a
similar white reflection.

Try wetting the grill and take another pic for comparsion.....at dusk, with similar light and auto flash. The grill in some of the 'dry' photos
seems to have a irregular 'pattern' on the side....maybe from heat discoloration. ( can't really tell if it is in the same spot as the sprite
shows up.) Was the grill still hot from use or was it cold in the 'sprite' photos?

. I wouldn't go as far as CSI, but I do like to approach it logically and systematically rule out all the extraneous
variables/factors that I can. I am still actually skeptical myself if it is actually some sort of a being or just a reflection. And I was the one who
took the darn picture! lol. I just think it is interesting, whatever it is.

Nope, it was not likely that a raindrop fell onto the camera lense, since I was inside and the rain was falling in another direction besides inwards
towards the house.

I had planned on waiting for the next rainstorm to try and reproduce the photo again in similar conditions, but I suppose wetting the grill may be
sufficient. I'll try it when I get home eventually. The other people in my house will think that I am absolutely nuts though, of course

.

The barbeque was definately cold when the picture was taken. A very good question, though. Despite the appearance of 'dusk' caused by the darkened
sky, the picture was taken between 10 and 11 am, because I remember that I took it on my spare/lunch that day. We only barbeque for supper, and I
don't think the barbeque had been used for some time before the picture, anyway. If by the irregular pattern you mean the spots, I have said earlier
that I think they are caused by oil/grease, although it may be heat discoloration. I don't know much about the properties of plastic. I also
mentioned earlier that I don't think those spots were there when the sprite picture was taken, although I can't prove that.

Anyways, I will get around to taking some comparison photos mid-week. (How many more pictures will I have to take? Whew. This proving stuff is hard
work

It was weird that you said your lizard was 2D though, and my entity in the photo also appears to be. How big was it? Like an iguana, or the smaller
like the size of my object in the photo?

I dunno what all these sprites and shadow lizards are, but they seem to be occuring more and more frequently each day :\. I'm a little more relieved
that mine appears to be made of light instead of shadow/darkness, though, after reading about shadow people/beings.

[edit on 9-7-2005 by Yarcofin]

I already mentioned the size and all. It was maybe about one foot long though perhaps bigger. Actually, it was most likely a salamander, not a
reptile, because it did look similar to the picture that the one person posted, long tail and all. Also, there are two other people that said they've
seen a shadow something right at the beggining of dusk (just like me). And, yes, it is strange that it seemed to be 2-D, but then again; everthing
about it is strange!!! The thing moved like a snake! Even though I live very close to a creek, no salamanders live in my area; or at least not
anymore............ Think it's an ancient ghost? Or somthing from a different dimension? Oh, and I also seen a few days ago what was a small black
bird flying under my cieling but that appeared for a split-second when I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night (rough night). This creeped me
out even more. Though ,again, I may have been seeing things that weren't really there. So, they might be animal ghosts that are for some reason
black. Outo know, all I know is that I'm scared when sleeping after all this.
Lastly, the salamander looked just like a shadow except it was alive. I think you might be curious to know that I live in an area thats been known to
be huanted (Tinley Park, Orland Park, etc) My uncle who lives within walking distance has one or two human ghosts in his house but thats a whole
different story.

Oh sorry. I missed that you posted about it's size. So it was more smooth like a salamander than a lizard? I see. Well while there are similarities,
I'm not sure if your lizard is really related to my picture or not. Unless mine was a shadow but somehow reflected white... I have no idea really.
I'm new to the whole idea of shadow beings, and I don't really want to label my image as such just yet. I won't get much respect or support if I
start jumping to ridiculous conclusions. [No offense. I am not saying that you didn't see what you did, I am just saying that it would be ridiculous
to automatically apply this theory to my picture without looking into it]. Hopefully with time we will get some insight into both of these occurances,
though.

For the record (in case people are wondering about my psychological profile or something), I have never seen a ghost. I have never encountered an
alien. I don't hear voices. I have tried off-and-on to have an out-of-body experience and to experiment with psychic powers, etc, but neither have
yielded any result. So there is nothing really paranormal that has ever happened to me before this photograph, now that I think about it, even after
all of these years of researching the topics and experimenting with them. And the photograph probably isn't anything paranormal either, just
unexplainable. Now I'm going into doubt. Hmmm. lol.

Ya, well, what can I say, I'v been known to make quick conclusions and then I "edit" them when I get more info. I forgot to say how far the shadow
was from me. I was in my bed (the whole time) that was on one side of the room and the creature was on the closet that was in front of the bed. I
don't live in a mansion, so you might be able to sort of picture the distance. I have a queen size bed so the distance from the low rim to the closet
is about a yard. I hope you understand the American measuring system but if you don't then I'd say one yard is perhaps about the length of a
meter.?. Also, I am 13 years old, I have bad vision (too much videogames and computer), and I am extremely smart for my age. I also don't have any
paranormal or strange characteristics, though I sometimes make simple predictions and a few seconds later they come true. Maybe they're all
coinsedinces. I don't talk about this or else people will think I'm crazy. I have not seen or heard anything unusual except this shadow and a UFO
sighting that occured twice in 2003. (August 23 about 11 PM, October 31 about 7PM) However, many people have seen the UFO's. I am one of few people
from my family that does'nt have a good human ghost story (my uncle has some interesting stories as I've mentioned). Also, I live in a middle-class
house and only me, my parents, two parakeeets, a dog, and 6 fish live in it. Pus, I had many pets in the past but not one was reptilian nor amphibian.
Wait! I just remembered something I once heard! Two+ years ago I sometimes heard a faint woodwind instument music (perhaps a flute?) when I was in the
downstairs bathroom. I heard it for some weeks and right when I started to get unafraid of it, it stopped and I havn't heard it since. Hope this
helps!

You could stay in further touch with me through the U2U (if I could figure out how to use it lol)

i've been lookin at this pic since u uploaded it and it's driving me crazy!(i did a google image search of all kinds of reflective stickers) in my
opinion(not a pro or anything) it does appear to be a sticker or decoration. Sorry I couldn't be of more help...

Originally posted by adamneldon
i've been lookin at this pic since u uploaded it and it's driving me crazy!(i did a google image search of all kinds of reflective stickers) in my
opinion(not a pro or anything) it does appear to be a sticker or decoration. Sorry I couldn't be of more help...

That's definitely where I stand on this issue as well. It's some kind of sticker or decoration that was there. I don't think it was a reflection,
though. I think it was placed right where we see it and my opinion will remain until otherwise proven wrong.

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